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Sarah Ann Stewart who married Joseph Wigle is possibly also a daughter of Charles and Jane.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 90-92:
Simeon M. Stewart is a representative member of one of the historic families of County Essex, and is now proprietor of the leading hotel at Ruthven. The family, as the name indicates, is of Scottish extraction.
     James Stewart, progenitor of the family in County Essex, was born in Argyllshire, Scotland... During the American Revolution he served as a colonel in the British army... he subsequently married, in Maryland, a Scottish-born maiden, Margaret Brown... They settled on a farm in Dunkard township, Greene county, Pennsylvania, and in the course of time eight children were born to them, four sons - James, John, Daniel and Charles - and four daughters - Sophia, Mary, Jane and one whose name is not recorded...
     John and Charles Stewart served under Gen. Anthony Wayne in the Indian war in Ohio, and also assisted in the building of the stronghold, Fort Erie, the first one on Lake Erie. John Stewart married in Canada a Miss Augustine and Charles married Jennie Findlay.
     Charles Stewart, the grandfather of our subject, was born in Pennsylvania, and when he settled in Ontario drew a Government lot on the 4th Concession, in Mersea township. Later he acquired much land, enough to enable him to start each of his sons with a farm. For years he was an elder in the Baptist Church. His children were: Charles, who lives at Olinda (he married Mary Whittle, whose youngest daughter married J. S. Bruner); John, who lived at Olinda and married Eliza Hamilton; Abel; and James. Of the daughters, Margaret married Michael Fox, locally known as "Big Mike"; Tabitha married Rev. Mr. Irving, a Baptist preacher; Polly married Lorenzo Dow Vaughtan; and Sally married Harrison Brown.
     Abel Stewart was born June 22, 1815, on the homestead farm in Mersea township, where he grew to manhood. He began farming on 100 acres of the homestead farm, selling that later and coming to Lot 12, on the Lake Shore in Gosfield, where he purchased 100 acres of unimproved land. On the front of this lot he built a water mill, which he ran for many years, and then sold to a Mr. Patton. He completed the clearing of his land, and built a frame house which still stands on the place, his first home having been a log cabin. His death took place Sept. 21, 1884, when he was aged sixty-nine years, two months, twenty-nine days. He married Lucy Blackman, who was born at Lockport, New York, and who died in Gosfield Feb. 24, 1893, aged sixty-six years, nine months, twenty-four days. Their children were: Rilla, widow of Leonard Fox, has two children, George and Amelia; Tabitha is the wife of William J. Fox; Demarius is the widow of John Fox, of Windsor; Horatio, a farmer of Pelee Island, married Katie Shoetie; Michael, a stonemason in Detroit, married Delia Burke, and they have two children, Amelia and Rexford; Simeon M. is mentioned below; Elihu B., of Detroit, married Jane Hairsine, and they have three children, Leonard, Maitland and Eva, both sons being physicians; Nathaniel, of Leamington, married a Miss Fink; Duncan resides at Cohoes, New York; William lives at Ruthven; Wilday married Cornelius Neilson, of Sandusky, Ohio, and they have a daughter, Ethel.
     Simeon M. Stewart was born Nov. 13, 1850, on the old homestead in Mersea township, and was a boy when the family removed to the Lake Shore in Gosfield. He obtained his education in the section school. His first independent venture was as a hog and cattle buyer for Bellnap & Drake, of Detroit, and he also did some buying for Hiram Walker. For nine months he worked at the carpenter trade in Lasalle county, Illinois.
     On March 1, 1877, Mr. Stewart rented the "Lovelace Hotel" at Ruthven, which he conducted for five years, and then moved to Leamington. After one year there in the livery business he bought the "Lake View Hotel", which he operated for a time, and then sold it to become proprietor of the "Ontario House", and later the "Erie Hotel", at Wheatley. For a short time he engaged in the livery business at Leamington, but after an absence of five years returned to Ruthven. In May 1887, he purchased the hotel which he has since ably conducted, under the name of the "Stewart House". In addition he owns the home farm, and looks after this property in connection with his other business.
     In politics Mr. Stewart is a Conservative and he has always taken a lively interest in local affairs, but has never consented to hold political office, although eminently qualified to do so. For the past seventeen years he has been fraternally connected with the Order of United Workmen at Kingsville.
     On Feb. 14, 1877, Mr. Stewart was married to Minnie, daughter of John Nutson, and three sons have been born to them, namely: Alfred, born May 17, 1879, is a graduate of the Medical Department of the Toronto University; George, born July 1, 1881, is a student in the Medical Department of the Toronto University; Joseph, born June 4, 1884, completed the course at the Leamington high school in 1904, and is now taking up dentistry in Toronto University.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 410-411:
James Stewart, a farmer and carpenter in Gosfield North, is the last surviving member of a family long known in the County of Essex, where they were among the earliest of the pioneer settles, while still farther back he traces his ancestry to the famous Stewarts of Scotland. He was born in the County of Norfolk, Middleton township, Oct. 13, 1840, son of Rev. James and Jane (Philpox) Stewart.
     Originally three brothers came from Scotland to America: Charles, grandfather of our subject, settled in Canada; John went to Pennsylvania and was killed during the Revolution; and James, a soldier in the British army, died near Amherstburg, in Malden township, after the war of 1812. Charles Stewart, with his wife, Peggy, made his home in Mersea township, and lived to the remarkable age of 104 years. He had seven children, all now deceased: John, Charles, Abel, Rev. James, Polly (wife of L. D. Vaughn), Peggy (wife of Michael G. Fox) and Tabitha (Mrs. George Brown).
     Rev. James Stewart was born in 1794. While he owned and lived on a farm, his life work was in the Baptist ministry, and he was a well-known preacher in the County of Essex. His death occurred in 1841, while he was at Long Point, Canada, engaged in the discharge of ministerial duties. He was twice married, and by his first wife, Betsy (Fulmer), of Mersea township, had five children, David, John, Isaiah, Jane and Margaret, all now deceased. By the second union with Jane Philpox, born in Iona, Canada, in 1800, there were three children, namely: Esther, the deceased wife of the late Thomas Craney, of Gosfield; Eliza A., the late wife of Thomas Hawkes, of Grand Rapids, Michigan; and James. After her husband's death Mrs. Stewart married William Taggatt. Her death occurred in 1898.
     James Stewart was reared and educated in the County of Essex, and early learned the carpenter's trade. While he has always followed this to some extent, he bought a tract of wild land while he was still a young man, and has devoted his life mainly to farming. He now has a highly-productive farm on Concession 6, Lot 23, a place which he has himself cleared and cultivated, and on which he has built a number of unusually good buildings. To this home in 1861 he brought his wife, whose maiden name was Miss Julia Lane. She was born in Colchester South in 1846, the daughter of Aaron and Eleanor Lane, who were early settlers in that region, descendants from an old English family. Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, but all have passed away save one daughter, Cecilia, the wife of John C. Hutchinson, a business man in Leamington, who has one daughter, Mildred.
     In their religious belief Mr. Stewart and his wife are Methodists, and are members of that church, in whose work they have always taken an active part. Politically Mr. Stewart has always adhered to the Reform party, but has not been prominent in politics, as his services to the public have always been in connection with educational work, as a school trustee, or in some similar position. In his home Mr. Stewart has been an admirable husband and father; as a citizen, public-spirited and honest; among his friends and neighbors, upright in conduct, genial in nature and charitable in thought and deed, so that he is held in high esteem, respected and honored.